Dax Kelson

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Dax Kelson (mailto:dax@gurulabs.com)

I have been using Linux since the early 1990s and various UNIX flavors a few years earlier. I first used Linux in production (Red Hat Linux 4.0) when I started a ISP in Salt Lake City, Utah. I grew my ISP to over 10,000 users and over 1000 hosted websites using a mixture of Linux and Solaris. I was actively involved in the Linux and various Open Source communities during my ample free time. I served as the official GNOME (http://www.gnome.org/) RPM packager during the GNOME 1.x timeframe producing RPM binaries for many different distributions.

It was a lot of fun and my exposure to both networking side (BGP, OSPF, WAN technologies, etc) as well as the Linux/UNIX administration side was priceless. I sold my ISP before the dot com crash and moved on to a pure Linux job. I now work at Guru Labs (http://www.gurulabs.com/), a Linux education company I started in 1999 with a university friend. At Guru Labs myself and others have written thousands of pages of Linux documentation that we use in our Linux training courses (http://www.gurulabs.com/training/) and our Linux courseware (http://www.gurulabs.com/courseware/) that we sell to other training and educational institutions.

Geographical Location: Utah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah), United States

Articles

Recent articles include:

• Using Linux and Bluetooth DUN on the Treo 650 (http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/Using_Linux_and_Bluetooth_DUN_with_the_Treo650.php)
• Creating Quality RPMs (http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/guru+guides.php)
• Creating SUSE Linux boot.iso files (http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/Creating_boot.isos_files_for_SUSE_Linux.php)

Older articles include:

• Ext3 vs Reiserfs (http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/ext3_vs_reiserfs-1.php)
• Installing Oracle 9i on Red Hat Linux (http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/Oracle9i_Linux_Install.php)
• In-depth Red Hat Linux 9 Review (http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/RedHatLinux9-TechReview.php)